The best Clay alternative

Autocloz is the strongest free alternative for outbound teams: a free-forever, AI-native CRM with email, calling, LinkedIn, SMS and WhatsApp built into one login. Unlike most Clay alternatives, the core CRM stays free for 5 users and 100,000 contacts, and every paid plan lifts the seat count to unlimited — you only pay to raise per-channel daily limits.

For most teams, yes. Autocloz charges no per-seat fee, so adding users never raises the bill, and the CRM is free forever. Calling uses carrier pass-through (your own Telnyx, DIDLogic or FreJun rates, with no per-minute markup), so you scale on volume instead of seats or bundled minutes.

Import your contacts, companies and deals by CSV or API, connect your mailboxes (Google, Microsoft or SMTP) and carrier, and rebuild your sequences as multichannel. You keep every channel — email, calling, LinkedIn, SMS and WhatsApp — on one lead timeline, and built-in warmup means you can move sending over without rebuilding your stack.

For multichannel engagement, yes — Autocloz runs the email, calling and LinkedIn cadences Clay is known for and adds native SMS and WhatsApp, a free CRM and a compliance gate. The main thing it doesn't chase is enterprise-only RevOps tooling, which is where the largest orgs may still prefer Clay.

No. Every paid Autocloz plan includes unlimited users with no per-seat fee, and the CRM is free forever for 5 users — you can start without a card and invite the whole team. Paid plans simply raise per-channel daily limits, mailboxes, contacts and verifications, and you can change or cancel any time.

Most teams are sending the same day. Importing contacts and connecting a mailbox takes minutes; rebuilding your best sequences as multichannel is the bulk of the work. Built-in warmup and deliverability tooling mean you can ramp sending safely rather than cutting over cold.

Not really, and it would be misleading to claim so. Clay is an enrichment and workflow engine with a provider waterfall Autocloz does not attempt to match.

When the gap is sending, not data — multichannel sequences, mailbox infrastructure with warmup and rotation, compliance gates, and a CRM to hold the pipeline.

Yes, and that is the common setup: enrich in Clay, import into Autocloz, sequence across email, calling, LinkedIn, SMS and WhatsApp, and keep the pipeline in the included CRM.

Email finding, unlimited free verification on the contacts you have, and per-org Apify actors for sourcing. It is narrower than a waterfall by design.

The free plan is genuinely free-forever — 5 users, 100,000 contacts and 10 mailboxes — so adding it beside Clay to handle sending does not have to mean a second real bill until your sending volume justifies one.

Clay does the sourcing and enrichment run, and you export or sync the resulting table into Autocloz as contacts with their custom fields intact. From there Autocloz owns the sending: sequence steps across email, calling, LinkedIn, SMS and WhatsApp, mailbox rotation and warmup underneath the email steps, and the compliance gate in front of anything that dials or texts. Replies land against a company and a deal in the included CRM rather than back in the enrichment table, which is the point — Clay is not trying to be where your pipeline lives.

When your sending already works. If you have a sender you trust, a CRM your team actually updates, and email is the only channel you run, then Clay plus that stack is a coherent setup and adding a platform underneath it buys you little. The gap Autocloz fills appears when the sequence needs a second channel, when nobody can say which mailbox a reply came from, or when the CRM seat count is what is stopping people from logging activity.

A little, and it is worth naming. Autocloz includes email finding and unlimited free verification on contacts you already have, which overlaps with the cheapest tier of a waterfall. It does not overlap with Clay's provider chain, intent signals or the workflow builder — those have no equivalent. In practice teams keep Clay for sourcing and use Autocloz's verification as a final check before send, because bouncing a contact you paid to enrich is the expensive outcome.

The free plan is genuinely free forever — 5 users, 100,000 contacts, 10 mailboxes and unlimited email verification — so adding it beside Clay to handle sending does not have to create a second real bill until sending volume justifies one. Paid plans raise per-channel daily limits rather than adding seats, so the cost tracks how much you send, not how many people can log in. For a team already paying per enrichment credit, the useful framing is that the two bills scale on different axes and neither one multiplies the other.

Yes, but narrowly and on purpose. It finds email addresses, verifies unlimited contacts for free, and runs per-organisation Apify actors when you want to scrape a source you control. There is no provider waterfall, no intent data and no bundled B2B database, and presenting it as an enrichment tool would be misleading. The verification is the piece that pairs best with Clay: it is the last check before a send, and it catches the addresses that were valid when enriched and are not any more.